Inspiration from "Carandiru": The world is a prison (2007-05-03 )

Ellis 2022-03-18 08:01:01

Anyone with a bit of culture knows how troublesome language can be, so I must first declare that this metaphor has no negative and anti-social tendencies. If there's anything emotional about it, I think I wish more people understood how incredibly disappointing the world is, and more people would wake up, maybe because of our limited ability, and be in pain after waking up, but Only understanding and learning can make our world have hope, and only by piercing the hypocritical surface happiness can we have real happiness. The individual is inseparable from the world, and it is impossible for us to abandon the world to pursue the so-called ultimate in life.
We say Africa is the forgotten continent and Latin America is the lonely continent, so should we really forget them? The result of ignoring one's ears and stealing the bell is a shameless personality gain. Too many voices, too many "points", it is difficult to distinguish which point is high and which point is low, and it is difficult to distinguish which is more important and which is less important, so the extreme perspective is quite powerful and directly gives order. As a man, I am considered extreme by the people around me, but do you know what a man is? Men are power, and women are beauty; power is to be understood, and beauty is to be loved; so men are to be understood but not loved, and women are loved but not understood; men seek power, and women seek beauty. The sign of power is to have an angle on the view of the world. This angle must be cut deeply, ruthlessly, and accurately. This angle can only be extreme, and this man can only be extreme, but how to achieve this kind of power? must seek! Huge power is born from worship and love, and extreme people are often not lucky enough to get the love they want, so they can only worship, worship countless people worthy of worship, and these people also worship each other, this worship makes He clearly knows that he is not alone. There are many people who have been by his side since ancient times. These people are the hope of mankind, and their spiritual home is his belief. This belief is called "human spiritual community". This kind of spirit is the healthy individualism spirit, relying on this spirit, these people maximize the individual, thus maximize the relationship between the individual and the world, and then bring the greatest value to the world. Speaking of which, I will show an angle: the world is a prison. Just look at Carandiru by Hector Barbon.

Of course, the world here does not refer to the whole world. The world is of course colorful and mysterious, but the essential core of the world so far is prison. This film is based on real events. The Sao Paulo Detention Center, which is the largest prison in Latin America, holds more than 4,000 people and is known as "Carandiru". In 1992, there was a big riot in the prison, the police were dispatched, 111 prisoners were killed in the riot, no police officers were injured, what happened, just like the end of the film: only God knows. At the end of 2002, the prison was announced to be closed, and the blood-washed buildings collapsed. The scene was quite shocking. I don’t know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. The film is basically the attitude of a documentary, without adding any opinions. First, it describes the stories of various prisoners. It is a ukiyo-e of Brazilian society. The society is obviously like that. Too many people must unfortunately enter the prison where it is difficult to see the sun again. One day, there was a sudden and inexplicable fight, so the prisoners started rioting like animals, and then the police came, and the prisoners suddenly couldn't even exist in panic. You might ask, isn't there a lot of people who are doing well? I ask you what is the relationship between those people and these people? The angle can be directed to the high peaks, or to the lowest valleys, prisons, mental hospitals, coal mines, cemeteries... These are all good points of essence excavation. Because there is no capitalist economic order, too many things in the country are not sound, and the government has become the evil of evil, incompetent and dirty, weak and vicious, so they carry out murderous activities for the sake of false reputation, and the people have no way to organize anything. We can only resign ourselves to fate, while disease, poverty, and violence are rampant, and the right to life and health cannot be guaranteed. The country is bad, the society is bad, the mind is bad, the people's life is bad, and finally, the people are bad too. With so many criminals in prison, how many really deserve to stay that long? They don't have a home, they don't have anything to live in, they can only believe in some kind of God, or they belong to a gang, seeking safety and a sense of belonging. And how many potential prisoners are there? What about future prisoners? They don't want to go to school and work well, so what? How can they? How can it be?

A bad society is very miserable. This is superficial. Looking at the inner world of the world, it is actually just as bad and the same model. People always have no independent spirit and always follow the trend. The most frequent way of death among young Chinese today is suicide! They cannot find their own sense of security in their hearts, their way of life or their way, and they go into some kind of "prison" at every turn, with no way to escape. This is not a siege, it can still be played with petty bourgeoisie, this is a prison, there is no future. Nothingness, rebellion, existentialism, beat generation, new wave... I'm not talking about these, I'm one of the many optimistic young people in China, I'm saying, we can't forget the world around us, it is the world The nature of the problem must be observed as a whole, and the partial solution based on the so-called importance is self-deception and eternal samsara thinking. Only in this way can we truly find ourselves, even if we answer the sentence: the deeper you know the world, the deeper the pain you feel. It needs to be added that suffering is not necessarily suffering. A clear heart corresponds to wisdom. The reason why suffering is suffering is that it needs to be surpassed and destroyed. Remember what Master Jingkong said, many philosophers and successful people are considered enlightened people, but they are still not enough. Any theory with "relative" is not good enough. Everyone in this era can be excellent, how can we belittle ourselves and stop at pain? Focus on yourself, don't forget the world, and pursue the ultimate.

In order to present a real picture, it is not easy to direct. The film crew is very large, with as many as 26 main actors, 120 supporting characters and 8,000 extras. Just to paint the tattoos of prisoners for the actors, makeup artists and art directors 700 different patterns were designed. Parts of the film were filmed on-site at Carandiru Prison, the first time in Brazil's history that such a large-scale film crew has been stationed in a working prison. Best regards.

The world is a prison, as long as one day we will still say that Africa is a forgotten continent and Latin America is a lonely continent.

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Carandiru quotes

  • Lady Di: I've come to take the test.

    Médico - Physician: Please, take a seat. First, I'd like to ask you a few questions, Lady Di.

    Lady Di: I've seen this movie before, doctor. I've never needed a blood transfusion and I never pierce my veins. The only drug I use is a joint now and then... when I watch TV or for a little romance.

    Médico - Physician: And partners, how many?

    Lady Di: Oh, about 2000.